On Alzheimer's and sex

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Comedian: 

I can't wait till I get Alzheimer's -- new pussy every night!

Analysis: 
Slayton takes an uncommon position on Alzheimer's disease, seeing a plausible bright side of something commonly regarded as unwanted.

On erections

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At my age, I'm lucky to get an erection. I'd be happy if a flag came out with a sign that said, "Hey, thanks for the opportunity."

Analysis: 
Richard Lewis re-appropriates a commonly embarrassing admission by introducing it with a self-deprecating joke. By anthropomorphizing his penis, Lewis allows his audience to relate to his penis' struggles -- detached from Lewis "the self".

On old dogs

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Comedian: 

You can teach an old dog new tricks, you just don't want to watch the dog doing them.

Analysis: 
Bill Cosby takes a common aphorism and explores it from another perspective in this joke. In a way, he takes the assumption of "can't" and flips it to "can" and then explores the resulting scene and makes an observation.

On Elizabeth Taylor

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Comedian: 

[Elizabeth Taylor] is the most beautiful three women in the world at this point.

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On chicken legs

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Comedian: 

Do you have any idea the guts it takes to wear feathers like this? [motion to outrageous attire] When you have legs like these? [chicken dance movements]

Analysis: 
Phyllis Diller re-appropriates comedy regarding her thin legs by accentuating them with costume and comedy. Thusly, the audience "laughs with her" about her legs instead of "about her" (privately).
Location: 
Stand-up clip from Make 'em Laugh http://www.pbs.org/wnet/makeemlaugh/

On egg freezing

Comedian: 

I'm getting older and I'm thinking about having my eggs frozen. Well, just the egg whites. I'm trying to cut back on my cholesterol.

Analysis: 
Brenda Pontiff draws a connection between animal (edible) and human (not socially acceptably edible) eggs.

On old

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Comedian: 

Old is always fifteen years from now.

On age

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Comedian: 

Fuck the Gen X-ers. It's their diapers that are clogging up the landfill.

On being dark-skinned in Africa

Comedian: 

I went to Africa. Now I know how white people feel in America -- relaxed. 'Cause you hear a police car coming, you know it ain't coming after your ass.

Analysis: 
Richard Pryor notices and explicates an eye-opening difference between the United States of America and African nations.

On affirmative action

Comedian: 

How come the white male politicians who vote against affirmative action are always so willing to accept a handicap on the golf course?

Analysis: 
Paul Krassner finds a discontinuity in the reasoning of a majority group.

On tongue biting

Comedian: 

Do you think anyone's ever bitten their tongue and then decided to eat the rest?

Analysis: 
Argumentum ad absurdum?

On spots

Comedian: 

I spilled spot remover on my dog -- now he's gone.

Analysis: 
Steven Wright finds double usage of a word and explicates it with a joke.

On getting an abortion

Comedian: 

I'm getting an abortion. I don't need one, but I feel that as an American I should exercise that right before it gets taken away.

On abortion

Comedian: 

I say to this dude with a "Stop Abortion" picket sign, "I have the answer to abortion -- shoot your dick. Take that tired piece of meat down to the ASPCA and let 'em put it to sleep."

Analysis: 
Whoopi Goldberg finds fallacy in the male of the human species passing judgement on womens' decisions regarding their own body and future body state. She admonishes his gender grouping for causing women to be placed in the position of considering abortion.
Location: 
Book: The Funniest Jokes from the World's Best Comedians (Judy Brown) (1998)

On celebrity and knowing

Comedian: 

People don't know who I am. Some people don't know I do standup. They just write that I'm that guy from those failed sitcoms. I always joke that "I've never heard of me either."

Analysis: 
Jim Gaffigan expresses a frustration with the current state of celebrity and knowledge transfer by acknowledging his own inability to find himself via external sources of information.
Year: 
2006
Location: 
Kyle O'Brien (March 3, 2006) "Comic Gaffigan's one Hot star", The Oregonian, p. 43.

Midget defense

Comedian: 

I had a dream that midgets were trying to assassinate me, so I bought a bullet-proof car. But since they were midgets, I bought a convertible.

One down the sand pit

Comedian: 

When I was a kid, we had a quicksand box in the back yard. I was an only child ...eventually.

Polite food separator

Comedian: 

Last time I went to the grocery store I caused a lot of commotion 'cause I tried to buy that thing at the register that separates your food from the other guy's food... [emotion: distress] "No, I need this! You don't know what its like where I live."

Year: 
2005
Location: 
I Still Have a Pony

Mixed messages in school

Comedian: 

In school they told me "practice makes perfect." Then they told me "nobody's perfect," so I stopped practicing...

Year: 
2005
Location: 
I Still Have a Pony

The stupid scientist

Comedian: 

They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven... They're right.

Year: 
2005
Location: 
I Still Have a Pony

On Babies

Comedian: 

Lots of my friends have babies, but I don't have any babies, but I have lots of friends - babies don't have any friends. They all have those baby-monitors so they can hear the baby from the other room, which I consider a form of wiretapping. One day there's gonna be a really smart baby who makes a fake recording of some fake baby noises... Gonna crawl out of the window and go to Italy. I need one of those baby-monitors for my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about... Sometimes I talk to myself fluently in languages I'm unfamiliar with.

Year: 
2005
Location: 
I Still Have a Pony

Quote unquote

Comedian: 

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote," so right before I die I could say "unquote."

Year: 
2005
Location: 
I Still Have a Pony

Words as poetry

Comedian: 

When I first read the dictionary I thought it was a long poem about everything.

Year: 
1985
Location: 
I Have a Pony

A curious death

Comedian: 

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Year: 
1985
Location: 
I Have a Pony

Seashells, or "mine is all"

Comedian: 

I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered on the beaches all over the world... Maybe you've seen it?

Year: 
1985
Location: 
I Have a Pony

Existential tree

Comedian: 

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me, and I... didn't hear it.

Year: 
1985

Used things

Comedian: 

I recently went to the hardware store, and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again.

Year: 
1985

Well-goings

Comedian: 

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Light and dark

Comedian: 

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

Psychic girlfriend

Comedian: 

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.

Bird and mouse

Comedian: 

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Psychokinesis

Comedian: 

All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.

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